TRUCK MURDER
POLICE MAKE ARRESTS DEVELOPMENT IN VICTORIAN CRIME (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Nov. 28, 11.55 p.m. MELBOURNE, Nov. 28. Two men were arrested and charged with the murder of John Thomas Dempsey, the truck driver whose body was found buried at King Lake West on November 2. The arrested men are Roy McFarlane, aged 32, of Newmarket, and Francis O'Keeffe, aged 37, of North Melbourne. O’Keeffe was arrested in bed at midnight on Saturday. McFarlane was detained at Beaufort, 100 miles from Melbourne. The arrests followed the most intense and widespread investigation in the history of the Victorian police. Dempsey w«s driving a truck carrying wool valued at £3OO from Bendigo to Melbourne on October 11, when he disappeared. No further news of hint or the truck was heard till the truck was accidentally found by picnickers, hidden in dense bush at King Lake West, 42 miles from Melbourne, on November 1. The following day the body was found buried in a sack near the truck. The police investigations covered nearly every part of the State in an endeavour to trace the stolen wool. .
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 283, 29 November 1937, Page 8
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